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Weather windows provide good fishing in Galway Bay

By
IFI Staff
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Skipper John Fleming reports that the weather has been most unhelpful of late, but when a weather window has presented itself, the fishing opportunities have been very productive. Even forced to stay inshore and fish the north shore reefs, they found “plenty of mackerel for the pan, and more pollack than we have ever gotten in that area. The ground was thick with sandeel and the pollock were in a frenzy. Even found this lovely little cod, very rare on the north shore.”

John has limited midweek availabilty for June, but with some settled weather hopefully on the way, its worth giving him a shout. Tope fishing is getting started, and he will be starting porbeagle shark trips shortly.

 

 

Go fishing…

 

To book fishing with John aboard the Brazen Hussy II, give him a call on 087 7571320

A regular day is between 9am- 6pm from either Rossaveal, Spiddal or Galway depending on species being sought after. Fishing on the inshore reefs for pollock, cod, ling, wrasse, conger eel and mackerel can be reached in 10 minutes from departure, while our offshore reef marks are within 45 minutes of departure. Our ground fishing for tope, spurdog, ray, bullhuss, turbot, plaice and the giant common skate can all be reached within the hour which ensures the most amount of time is spent fishing.
The shark season usually starts at the end of June and runs into late October, this is the ultimate angling adrenaline rush with these hard fighting blue and porbeagle sharks all being tagged and released safely.
Package deals available

Address: Baile an tSagairt, Spiddal, Co. Galway.
Telephone: +353 (0)87 7571320
Facebook: www.facebook.com/BlueSharkAngling

Blue Shark Angling Galway,
Phone John Fleming : +353 (0)87 7571320

Results of third Brown Tag Draw for the Roughty River

By
Myles Kelly
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Roughty Bridge, Co. Kerry
Roughty Bridge just outside Kenmare in Co. Kerry.

On Thursday June 12th, a draw took place to allocate 18 Brown Tags for the taking of salmon on the Roughty River. The requirement to hold a brown tag is set out in Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) Regulations, signed into law by the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan, T.D.  More information on the Roughty River brown tag lottery is available here.

A total of 42 valid entries were received from salmon rod licence holders. Each was assigned a number in advance of the draw.

Twenty three (23) numbers were randomly generated. The first 18 successful entrants will be issued a brown tag no later than Monday June 16th . The final 5 numbers are reserved in case an angler declines or returns the tag allocated to them.

The random draw was conducted by Sean Long (RBD Director).

The selected numbers are:

  1. 2025329
  2. 2025317
  3. 2025305
  4. 2025311
  5. 2025324
  6. 2025341
  7. 2025328
  8. 2025319
  9. 2025313
  10. 2025331
  11. 2025304
  12. 2025302
  13. 2025320
  14. 2025309
  15. 2025308
  16. 2025318
  17. 2025335
  18. 2025322

The 5 reserve numbers are:

  1. 2025221
  2. 2025223
  3. 2025228
  4. 2025255
  5. 2025271

The Brown Tags will be issued by post.

The fourth and final Roughty Brown Tag Lottery for 2025 will open for entries at the fisheriesireland.ie website from Monday July 14th, until midnight on Sunday August 3rd, with the draw taking place on Wednesday August 6th.

Piscari-Fly Newsletter: River Nore Update, Father’s Day & Championships Galore

By
IFI staff
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The Piscari-Fly team are back with their latest newsletter with news of what’s going on around the country:

How’s the Fishing?

With a recent bit of rainfall, the Nore came up a couple of inches and the fishing had been good and steady during the day. Peter and Mark were out Sunday for a few hours, they had a good session. The best nymph for Peter was his Hare’s Ear Nymph tied on a Hanak RS hooks and Piscari Tungsten beads.

Mark was working some Pheasant Tails and bits and pieces and the boys picked up some good fish, actuallyt plenty of them and it was good fishing. However, it was cold and temperatures really have dropped, there was a slight breeze on the river and it made it not so typical June fishing. But the fishing was good.

Ricky and his dad Dick Croke were out on Sunday night and they were saying it was some of the best fishing they have had on the Nore in a few years. It was completely on fire, with fabulous quallity fish showing for the dries. So if you’re around about over the next wee while, call into us here for permits and recommendations on locations, get out there and enjoy some good fishing while its there. When we have this mixed weather and there is some water in the river the fishing is good. Great to hear that the river is fishing well.

A good friend of ours down in Cork was out testing some of our saltwater fly patterns and picked up this nice bass. Well done to Ollie, it’s a cracker of a fish on the fly. He picked it up on a Chartreuse Flatwing. Fab to see some nice fish being caught on the coast.

Recap of the Worlds Fly Fishing Championship

So in the end it turned out to be a good result for Team Ireland although we had some early unlucky draws which didn’t help their cause. But the boys finished strong and won the final day overall, which is not a very common thing for an Irish team. Great to see the boys competing at that level and showing the calibre of angler that we have here in Ireland can compete at that level. Everything has to click all the time at this level over the entire competition and the boys performed brilliantly. Great to see the boys finishing strong and getting up to a 10th place finish. So well done to Team Ireland and well done to all the medal winners and organisers for hosting the event.

https://ffch.cz/wffch2025en/

Italy for the European Fly Fishing Championship

We would like to congratulate our very own Mark Driver on being ratified as the Captain of the Irish Team going to Italy in October. So both Peter and Mark will be away. Congratulations and best wishes to the rest of team. The line up is Mark Driver – Captain, Anglers – Peter Driver Kevin Oates, Jano Knazko, Enda, Derek Cagney.

The boys are planning a trip in August to do a recon on the area and get familiar with it, and the styles of rivers there. Then the championship take places in October on four river sessions and 1 lake.

Make sure you check out Piscari-Fly Club as Peter is about to start a whole “Road to Italy” series, where he will take the club members through every aspect of preparing for a championship, getting the gear together, tying the flies and just in general what he is expecting. So if you are a subscriber make sure you check that out. It will start this weekend coming, where Peter will be doing some stuff to get ready.

Happy Father’s Day

So if you are struggling for ideas for Father Day’s gift ideas, we have loads of gift ideas here in store. Get in touch and we can advise on putting a fishing gift hamper together or flies to suit where the father’s are fishing etc.

About Piscari Plus Club

Fly-fishing is a journey of discovery that is not all about the end result but the experience of getting there.

  • Join us and we will go on the journey together.
  • Membership in this club will open up the Fly-fishing World to you through Community, Knowledge, and Improved Ability.
  • Through the Piscari-Fly club you will improve your angling ability to the highest level.

Piscari-Fly Club is all about creating a community of like-minded anglers who have a passion to evolve, educate, and progress in the world of flyfishing and flytying. The Piscari-Fly Club will be hosted by its owner and passionate fly angler Peter Driver.

Check it out at https://club.piscari-fly.com/

About us

Based on the River Nore just outside Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, Ireland. Piscari-Fly is a growing Fly Tying and Fly-Fishing business with a vast amount of experience and knowledge. If there is ever anything I can do to make my service better for you please feel free to suggest it to me and I’ll gladly try my best to accommodate your requests. Thanks again. Peter Driver.

As a small business we depend on the satisfaction of our customers and their word of mouth, google reviews are important to our online presence and we sure would appreciate your review. Just head over to this link and give us a quick review.

Thanks for the support its greatly appreciated

A few salmon on the Laune last week

By
Eileen Murphy
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laune

For the week ended 8 June there were 2 salmon caught on Johnsons Fishery, River Laune weighing 9lbs and 11lbs, both spinning.

Other anglers had 2 salmon from Beat 3, one weighing 8lbs on worms and the other was also weighed 8lbs and it was caught spinning.

We also had a report of 1 salmon from Beat 2 caught spinning.

Go fishing…

Rivers Laune and Killarney Lakes system

Fishing picking up again on Lough Conn

By
Shane O'Reilly
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A view of Lough Conn from the northern end of the lake

Reports of a general improvement in fishing across both lakes with wet and dry flies working such as Green Peter, Brown Sedge, Connemara Black, Bibio and Sooty Olive.  Salmon are also beginning to show in Lough Conn.

On Sunday 8th June, Foxford Angling Club held the recently postponed Devaney Cup Competition. Nine boats carrying eighteen anglers set out for the day. They had a return of ten trout over the thirteen-inch competition limit, with all anglers catching and returning good numbers in the ten to twelve-inch bracket, with both dry and wet fly working for them.

William Devaney presenting the Devaney Cup to Michael Tiernan for first prize

The winner was Michael Tiernan with two trout for 3 lbs.
2nd place – Martin Kenny with two trout for 2.5 lbs.
3rd place – John O’Connell with two trout for 2.2 lbs.
4th place – Shane Mc Ginty.
5th place – Peter Roche.

Steady fishing on the Moy as water levels continue to rise

By
Shane O'Reilly
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Ridge Pool at the Moy Fishery, Ballina

Moy Catchment Angling Report – Week ending 08-06-2025

Water levels rose considerably in the Moy early in the week following on from some heavy rain in the catchment. Levels at Ballylahan rose from 0.46 m on Sunday, 25th to 1.07 m on Tuesday, 3rd before receding back to 0.39 m by noon on Sunday, 8th June. Rainfall over the last week has been above average for most of the country, with more of the same expected for the week ahead, with unsettled weather, heavy showers and a good chance of thunderstorms towards the weekend.

The Moy Fishery

Antoine Joliet, France with a 9 lbs salmon off the Cathedral Beat and Adam Connolly releasing a nice 11 lbs salmon back to the Ridge Pool recently.


Ballina Salmon Anglers
Peter reports of one spring salmon of 8 lbs caught on the spinner and eight grilse all caught on the worm averaging 4 lbs in weight.

Knockmore Salmon Anglers
Kenneth reports of three salmon caught weighing from 7 lbs to 10 lbs.

Attymass Angling Club
Kevin reports of eight salmon caught for the week using all methods with the best weighing 11 lbs.

Coolcronan Fishery
Nick reports of four salmon caught for the week and one released, all over 9 lbs and all caught spinning.

Byrnes Fishery
Roy reports of five salmon caught on the prawn and the worm with the best weighing 9 lbs.

Armstrong Fishery
George reports of seven spring salmon and one grilse being caught weighing up to 13 lbs using all methods.

Gannon’s Fishery
Pat reports in with nine salmon being caught of which two were released. The best fish weighed 12 lbs.

The Foxford Fishery
Granville reported ten salmon caught mainly on the prawn, with one of them released, with the best weighing in at 12.5 lbs.

Foxford Salmon Anglers
Harry reports that twenty salmon were caught using all methods. Six of the salmon were caught in Rinnaney, with fourteen coming off Carrageen and the high bank.

Foxford Town
A report of two salmon caught on the prawn was received, with the best weighing 10 lbs.

Cloongee Fishery
Three salmon were reported caught on the spinner, ranging from 8 lbs to 13 lbs. Anglers are reminded that they must make a “catch/no catch” return on the form provided with their permit and place in the catch return boxes located in the two car parks. Catch/No Catch returns can also be made by email to [email protected]

East Mayo Anglers Association
Kathleen reports of twenty-one salmon being caught using all permitted methods, of which two were released. The best weighed in at 12 lbs, with several over 8 lbs.

Moy Estuary
Malcolm reports of being out on the estuary on Wed 4th and Thu 5th June with two anglers showing a return of fifteen sea trout for the two days with the best measuring almost 50 cm with several in the 40-45 cm bracket. Fishing is a little difficult now, so it’s taking a bit of persistence and sticking with it to get some decent results.

Go Fishing:

River Moy

Tough conditions for 3rd round of Athy Anglers Summer League

By
Myles Kelly
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Paula with a tench
Paula with a tench

Des Bridgette reports on the third round of the Athy & District Anglers Summer League which was fished on Sunday…

We held the third leg of our Summer League which was also open to members not in the league. Conditions were very hard. Well done to Tommy Cahill on winning the match with 6lb 15 ozs. In 2nd place was Des Bridgette with 4lb 7ozs. Taking 3rd place was Paula O’Neill on 3lb 7ozs.

Well done to all who competed and a big thank you to Chick for his generous donation that was for the lowest weight that was won by Mick Stynes.

mick's fish
This tiny fish was worth €50!

Our next Match will be held in Oaklands on the 22nd of June please se Athy & District Anglers Facebook page for more information.

Go fishing…

Athy and District Anglers

If you’d like to fish the Marina Club Grounds or get involved with the club and fish matches like these, then click the links below!

Athy & District Anglers Club was formed in 1959 and to this day they continue to pursue their goals of protecting, maintaining and encouraging the sport of angling in the greater Athy area. The club works with local authorities to improve and maintain local fishing areas as well as organizing events and matches for local and national anglers. Athy & District Anglers Club welcomes all new members and all age groups to the sport! If you’d like to get involved, please check out the Getting Involved section of their website.

Liverpool clean sweep at Edenderry 3-Dayer

By
Shane O'Reilly
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The Edenderry Festival drew to a close last Friday, bringing an end to 5 full days of competition fishing. The festival consists of two separate competitions: a 2-Dayer and a 3-Dayer. The 2-Dayer was fished on Tuesday and Thursday, and Tony Richardson came out on top with 16lb 12oz. 

2-Dayer Results:
1. Tony Richardson 16-12
2. Dean Murray 14-05
3. Paul Charnock 9-07
4. John Easton 9-00
5. Conor Browne 8-02.

 
The 3-Dayer was fished over Monday, Wednesday, & Friday, and after three days of fishing, there was only 10 ounces separating the top three. Liverpool angler Jeff Stirrat was rewarded for his long-service of 30 years travelling to the event with a competition win with a total of 22lb 1oz, closely followed by fello Liverpudlians Phil Walters (21lb 15oz) and Gavin Charnock (21lb 7oz).
 
3-Dayer Results:
1. Jeff Stirrat 22-01
2. Phil Walters 21-15
3. Gavin Charnock 21-07
4. Dean Murray Nytro 20-11
5. John Easton 19-13
6. Paul Kennils 19-08.
 
 

Go Fishing:

Enfield and Edenderry Coarse Angling Centres

 

John Easton wins Royal Enfield CAC 2-Day International

By
Shane O'Reilly
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The Royal Enfield Coarse Angling Club held their annual 2-day competition on the Royal Canal at Longwood and Blackshade over the weekend of 7/8 June. It was a well-attended event, with 35 anglers from Ireland and the UK competing for the circa €3000 prize fund.

Judging from the photos, there were a few nice bream knocking about, and also plenty of tench, which you would expect at this time of year. Visiting angler John Easton came away with the top prize with a bag of over 22lb, well ahead of Conor Browne in second place with 16 lb+.

Go Fishing:

Enfield and Edenderry Coarse Angling Centres

Weed hampers fishing at latest Ulster Krakens outing

By
Shane O'Reilly
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The following report is taken with courtesy from the Ulster Krakens SAC Facebook Page:
Ulster Krakens – Master Angler League Qualifier Leg 6 Report
Saturday, 7th June saw the Krakens head to Waterfoot Beach for the 6th leg of their master angler qualifier match. Fishing was from 7pm-12am on a filling tide, over the top, and down. The weather had been forecasted for rainy showers and a brisk NW wind with wind gusts of around 23mph.
6pm approached with the beach pegged at the flat roof (even though the flat roof house is no longer). The beach looked in good shape, the only thing that stood out was that the may bloom seemed to be thick in tight. With the pegs drawn, off we went. I’m not sure many of the boys fancied this one to be honest. Whispers in the car park before we headed down began with dogs, dogs, dogs…
For the second match in a row, Craig and Raymond were pegged beside each other, David drew the end peg up towards the play park. 7pm came around quickly and first casts went in, Raymond got off to a flyer with a treble shot on his first cast however things slowed down very quickly with the odd fish being landed, you could hear the groans down the beach with the weed playing havoc with baits being masked within minutes of being in the water.

A nice wee turbot

Gavin was winning the award for most species on the night with 5, Bert on peg 2 battled away to find a couple of counting fish, Ally on peg 1 was getting a few fish early on, but the fish seemed to switch off in front of him as the match progressed. Andy on peg 5 was going strongly, also with whispers of 6 fish at the midway point. Stephen Kinning in true fashion, kept plugging away on peg 6. Neil was quietly getting fish on the card, too. As darkness approached, everybody’s attention turned to dogs. Craig had been going for them since early with no success; however, Raymond’s first cast produced a dog… Craig could be heard down the beach, not sounding too happy.
🤣
In the end, it wasn’t grea,t but there were a few fish and good banter on the night.
At the halfway point, David Rainey is leading the flat fish of the year award, and Stephen McGarrell is leading the race for the biggest round fish of the year.
Species caught were: flounder, dab, turbot, weaver, whiting, poor cod and dogfish.

Results as follows:
1st Raymond “fish whisper” McCann 14 counters +5 unders for 451 points
2nd David Rainey 9 fish for 341 points
3rd Stephen Kinning 8 counters +unders for 222 points
4th Craig Henderson 7 counters +2 unders 219 points
5th Andrew Mc Callion 8 counters + 1 under for 188 points
Biggest Fish on the night was Raymond with a 23cm flounder 
Apologies for the lack of photos. It wasn’t a night to be taken pictures!
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